Diogenes Laertius. About the life, teachings and sayings of famous philosophers (№ 281014)

He [Solon] said that the word is the image of the case; that the king only the one who is stronger; that laws are like spiders ' webs which, if they come across a powerless and lightweight, they'll survive, if large - he will rip them and get out. He said that silence holds speech and timeliness holds the silence. Those who are in the power of the tyrants, he said, is similar to pebbles at the score: how the stone means that a larger number, then smaller, so they are at the tyrants are in greatness and splendor, in contempt. To the question why he did not set a law against parricide, he replied: "That he did not need". The question of how to get rid of crime among the people, he replied: "it is Necessary that the injured and uninjured was equally hard," and added: "wealth is born From satiety, from satiety - the dog."